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Concern over level of virus among young people, and UK death toll surpasses 30,000: Today's Covid-19 main points

Meanwhile, alternative assessment models were discussed at a meeting about Leaving Cert plans.

LAST UPDATE | 6 May 2020

HEALTH OFFICIALS HAVE confirmed that a further 37 people have died from Covid-19 in Ireland.

A further 265 cases of Covid-19 have also been confirmed here, bringing the total number of cases to 22,248.

The overall death toll from the virus in Ireland is 1,375.

The HSE is looking into delays with test results, it was also confirmed.

Dr Cillian de Gascun, director of the National Virus Reference Laboratory at UCD said that a total of 214,761 people have been tested for Covid-19. Although he said that the turnaround for test results is between two and four days, TheJournal.ie is aware of a number of people who were tested but were left waiting at least a week for their results.

Meanwhile, alternative assessment models were discussed by various stakeholders at a meeting about the holding of Leaving Cert examinations.

Internationally, the death toll has surpassed 30,000 people in the UK. 

Here are today’s Covid-19 main points:

  • A further 37 deaths and 265 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Ireland.

  • Half of the patients admitted to ICU with Covid-19 have chronic heart disease, Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan confirmed. 

  • Holohan also expressed concern about the number of Covid-19 cases in the community, particularly among younger people.
  • Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has said the Pandemic Unemployment Payment will continue beyond its original end date but that the level of the payment may change. 
  • The broadening of testing criteria for Covid-19 has raised questions about whether Ireland could once again face a major backlog. The criteria provided to GPs has now been expanded so that people only need to have a new cough, fever or shortness of breath in order to be eligible for a test.
  • Alternative assessment models were discussed by various stakeholders at a meeting about the holding of Leaving Cert examinations during the Covid-19 pandemic. Almost eight in 10 students want the exams to be cancelled, according to a new survey.
  • Education Minister Joe McHugh has announced the early payment of the €16 million DEIS grant for the 2020/21 school year. The funding is being paid ahead of schedule to help support students who are most at risk of educational disadvantage during the Covid-19 school closures. There are 890 schools with more than 180,000 students in the DEIS programme.
  • The State will cover the majority of the cost of childcare for healthcare workers, Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone has confirmed. 

  • Bewley’s café on Grafton Street in Dublin city centre is set to close permanently with the loss of 110 jobs – the closure has been blamed on the impact of the pandemic.
  • A number of gardaí were ordered to self-isolate after at least one of their colleagues tested positive for Covid-19 at Mountjoy Garda Station, leading to an entire unit being stood down for a short period of time, TheJournal.ie understands.
  • Simple tasks are posing greater challenges to people who are deaf and hard of hearing during the Covid-19 crisis. 
  • Hairdressers are being offered “three or four times” the normal price of a salon haircut by clients desperate to have their hair done during the current lockdown, according to industry representatives.
  • Ireland’s 1,900 community pharmacies are struggling to cope with soaring costs and falling revenues, the Irish Pharmacy Union said, with an average fall of 36% across the sector.

Here are today’s international Covid-19 points:

  • The European Commission has said the eurozone economy would contract by a staggering 7.7% this year.
  • The death toll from Covid-19 in the UK has surpassed 30,000 people - the highest death toll in Europe, and the second highest globally behind the US.
  • British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned against comparing the UK’s death toll internationally, and said the UK will have a testing capacity of 200,000 tests a day by the end of May.
  • UK police have confirmed that Professor Neil Ferguson won’t be fined following his resignation from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies after allowing a woman to visit him during the lockdown.
  • Germany is planning an almost complete return to normality this month, according to plans to send all pupils back to school and restart top-flight football.
  • US President Donald Trump has said the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic has hit the United States harder than the 9/11 attacks, and backtracked on disbanding the country’s emergency taskforce.
  • Fifteen children have been hospitalised in New York with a rare inflammatory disease possibly linked to coronavirus. 

With reporting by Órla Ryan

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    Jun 9th 2015, 10:11 AM

    very moving documentary and very difficult to watch. just goes to show that how a person is treated as a child stays with them all through life.

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    Jun 9th 2015, 10:20 AM

    Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize. I hope Christina and her siblings schedule re-unions a few times each year. They deserve to have the time to be together without the intrusion of media and cameras. It might help them fill the empty space that they hover over at the moment. Each of the four no doubt have their own separate circles of friends. They need now to be afforded the space to reaffirm that special circle of friends called family.

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    Jun 9th 2015, 10:20 AM

    She has such passion for children.she is an inspiration to us all.it was a compelling programme

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    Jun 9th 2015, 11:30 AM

    I read her book nearly two decades ago and it still haunts me. I couldn’t understand how her work in Vietnam wasn’t more well known but maybe her account of her childhood was probably too raw for a lot of people. She’s been a personal inspiration.

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    Jun 9th 2015, 10:11 AM

    Some people when they’re at their happiest (singing) show real pain .

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    Jun 9th 2015, 11:32 AM

    Wonderful to see how television reached the hearts of the Irish people (the word premiere was held in Dublin last September). And don’t miss the film NOBLE when it comes around again. It would be nice now to have Journalists, Senators and Politicians comment on Christina Noble’s story, in the context of what is happening in Geneva right now, as Ireland faces the United Nations condemnation of our serious lapses with Human Rights at home.

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    Jun 9th 2015, 3:13 PM

    After watching the programme I think Christina has mentally suffered from her years in an institution you can see the hatred in her against the government and the church at the time and I think her way to deal with that is to look after those unfortunate children .one part where I thought she was out of order was when she made a verbal attack on what she thought was a priest ,you know a lot o priests were sickened as to what happened to these kids too there are a lot of good priest out there . .One more thing I want to say ,I was also institutionalised in an industrial school for years just for not going to school and was abused also but like Jesus I have learned to forgive but not forget I always say those abusers will have to face judgement some day but overall I feel so sorry for Christina for the way it has affected her

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    Jun 9th 2015, 4:05 PM

    @ joeythelad, i agree with you , i found it difficult to watch as christina’s pain is very evident and of course well founded. i was also surprised with the response she got in the pub , dont why ? what i find surprising is that many people either dont know that she is irish or dont know anything about her work at all!
    i hope herself and her family have the time they need to try and bond and she finds some peace. so glad that you have learned to forgive , i am not so sure i could forgive, all the best

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    Jun 9th 2015, 8:10 PM

    What a great woman

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    Jun 9th 2015, 1:33 PM

    Nice house in Texas as well

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    Jun 9th 2015, 4:00 PM

    denise, did you watch the programme? what has her brothers house in texas got to do with it? such an odd comment for this story!

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    Jun 9th 2015, 6:23 PM

    I know,Denise !

    What should we do about it ? Genuine question .

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